Chicago Precinct Captain

Chicago Precinct Captain Synopsis

This is a story of the attitudes and thoughts of people in politicsduring the late fi fties and sixties. The explosion of the Blackpopulation and their steady migration westward from their historicenclaves on the East Side of Chicago was starting to be felt. Theriver wards controlled by the Italian Mafi a had enough control leftfor just one last great power surge for the Kennedy Election.

Shortly after that election they were neutralized and changed byelection irregularity investigations and redistricting and the abovementionedmigration. The advent of voting machines throughoutChicagoland also changed the way the old precinct captains couldchange election results by manipulating paper ballots. The characters depicted in this story are not based on any currentor deceased people.

Any resemblance is purely coincidental